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B 1. The Canterbury T ales was written in ________.

A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Current Modern English

B 2. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________.

A. March

B. April

C. May

D. June

C 3. ________ pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the T abard Inn in the southern part of London.

A. 25

B. 27

C. 29

D. 31

C4. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means____________.

A. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

B 5.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___.

A. Willia m Langland’s Piers the Plowman

B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis

D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D 6．Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are _________

A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of Athens

B. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter’s T ale, and The Tempest

C. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and Macbeth

D. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth

C7. Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s ________.

A. romantic comedy

B. comedy

C. tragedy

D. historical plays

C 8. A sonnet is a poem of ________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.

A. 8

B. 6

C. 14

D. 24

A9. Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s great comedies?

A. Henry V

B. The Merchant of Venice

C. A Midsummer Night’s Dre am

D. The Winter’s T ale

C 10. Which of the follow ing poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s drama?

A. lyric

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. quatrain

C11. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ___.

A. comedies

B. tragedies

C. sonnets

D. histories

B12. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _____ and the eternal__________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .

A. death/ life

B. time / beauty

C. death/ love

D. hate / love

C13. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.

B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.